Revelations of quacks and quackery / a series of letters by 'Detector'.

  • Courtenay, Francis Burdett, 1811-1886
Date:
1885
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Revelations of quacks and quackery / a series of letters by 'Detector'. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    that the defendant held the securities befcre mentioned, and might expose the plaintiff, the plaintiff was induced by the defendant to sign an acceptance for five hundred pounds, payable at six months, the defendant having taken out of his drawer the necessary stamp for five hundred pounds,* and drawn the bill. At this interview the plaintiff paid the de- fendant £140 on account, and in part payment of the sum of £300, which he had previously agreed to pay. On this occasion the plaintiff required the defendant to give him credit in accordance with his (defendant's) promise for the £15 he had paid at his first visit; but this the defendant refused to do, and the plaintiff soon afterwards remitted the balance, .£160, to the defendant. A few days before the said bill for £500 became due, the defendant wrote to the plaintiff to say that it would be presented through his (defendant's) bankers for payment. The plaintiff was unable to meet the bill, and wrote to the defendant, asking for a renewal, to which the defendant agreed; and the said bill was afterwards iVom time to time renewed, and the plaintiff more than once remitted the defendant, on his demand, the sum of £50 for such renewals, and in this manner he has paid the said defendant £150. Subsequently to this, from a fear that the defendant wculd insist on the payment of the £500, the ])laintiff was induced to give a further bill for £250 at three years' date. Ultimately the plaintiff found that he could not pay the said renewed bill for £500. He was, as hereinbefore ap- pears, completely in the defendant's power, and he very- ^ greatly dreaded exposure if the defendant should not be paid; and thereupon, and under the circumstances aforesaid, and in the month of January, 1856, the plaintiff was induced by the defendant to agree by letter with the defendant, to pay him the sum of £1,250 by instalments, such instalments for the first five years to be half-yearly instalments of £50 (making altogether £100 per annum), and for the last five years to be half-yearly instalments of £75 (making together * The quacks all thus keep stamps for different amounts ready, to get their dupes to sign before they have time to recover from the terrifying system herein disclosed.